Friday, October 30, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                        It's almost Halloween!     This rotation will end on November 11.          Make sure you have everything handed in or revised and                  re-handed in before then. Ms. Dorsey will no longer be doing intervention for Cavetime on Thursdays.  She will instead host the Mock Trial enrichment.  Book Orders are due today. This rotation ends November 11. Make sure you have all of your work turned in, and any make-up work completed and turned in by that day.   We have five more days of class, including the Readathon on November 11.   On that day bring your favorite reading materials, a pillow if you'd like to sit on it, and treats to enjoy and to share.

Targets for Today:      I can read for enjoyment.      I can use predicting to help myself focus on and comprehend texts.      I can make the texts I study memorable.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Individual reading.        Fill out your log! 2. Partner Fluency Practice        Fill out your graph! 3.  Storytime  -- You will receive a sheet of plain paper.  Fold it in half.  On each half you will draw something as you are directed to.  Write your name somewhere on that paper.  Draw a picture of what's under YOUR bed. There's Something Under the Bed Draw a picture that expresses how you feel about spiders.  Skittering Soundtrack from spiders scene in Something Wicked This Way Comes Make the things you have to learn memorable: Find a connection with what you have experiences or what you know. Draw a picture. Find an emotional connection, if you can.  You might want to make up a story to help you remember something, or imagine yourself there.  Video 31:54  Tick-Tock Tale  (about 6 minutes) foreshadowing setting characters -- antagonist/protagonist theme

If You Were Absent: See above. We read some scary stories from the book Half-Minute Horrors. Come to Cave Time to read the stories, or you can read them here: Scary Stories The video and review of literary elements was to help you with your reading in English class.